{"id":705827,"date":"2022-06-18T08:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/18\/people-arriving-in-uk-on-small-boats-to-be-electronically-tagged"},"modified":"2022-06-18T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T10:38:04","slug":"people-arriving-in-uk-on-small-boats-to-be-electronically-tagged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/18\/people-arriving-in-uk-on-small-boats-to-be-electronically-tagged\/","title":{"rendered":"People arriving in UK on small boats to be electronically tagged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rights campaigners say \u2018appalling\u2019 pilot scheme treats those fleeing conflict and persecution as criminals<\/p>

Refugee rights campaigners have described a new Home Office scheme to electronically tag asylum seekers as \u201cappalling\u201d, saying the move treats people fleeing conflict and persecution as criminals.<\/p>

Under a 12-month pilot, which began on Wednesday, some people arriving in the UK in small boats or in the back of lorries will be electronically tagged.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rights campaigners say \u2018appalling\u2019 pilot scheme treats those fleeing conflict and persecution as criminalsRefugee rights campaigners have described a new Home Office scheme to electronically tag asylum seekers as \u201cappalling\u201d, saying the move treats peo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2944,6,3055,640,14,3057,238,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706229,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705827\/revisions\/706229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}